Black Poetry : Flight of My Friends

[blakverb]

Take me with you
my friend of flight
with so many names

Saffron Finch
Black Phoebe
Snowy Egret
Cinnamon Teal
Caspian Tern

let me book a flight
on your hegira of freedom
my thoughts don't weigh much

my friend of flight
with so many names

Kingfisher
Violet-Green Swallow
Western Blue Bird
Green Heron
Cedar Waxwing

my thoughts don't weigh much
but they want what you have
your unshackled existence

my friend of flight
with so many names

Hummingbird
'Io (Hawaiian Hawk)
Warbling Silverbill
Raven
Starling

Your unshackled existence
is what children of oppression
need...freedom...free

my friend of flight
with so many names

Red Shouldered Hawk
Dark Eyed Junco
Japanese White Eye
'Alauahio (Maui Creeper)
Palila

freedom...free
my friends of flight
with names of free
American Eagle
American Robin
how does it feel to
wear the name of those
contrary to your flight?

my friend Mourning Dove
why are you melancholy?
I mourn because dreams
are murdered by manifestations
of this country's
" 'tis of thee"
and sorrows release
floods the streets
and the people walk
knee deep in misery

my friends of flight
with so many names
take me with you so
I can ride your conversations,
sweet selections of your free
actuality...My thoughts
don't weigh much.

(c)2001 blakverb

 

[N2urSoul]

so can WE watch them.....

...flocks of herons, egrets, and ibeses
flying high over giant cypress trees...???
Waz up?!

Now you have become a
"bird" watcher too, or was it a- crow?

This one says a lot to me Blak...

n' what you do -per usual!

 

[$$RICH$$]

ALL BIRDS FLOCK 2GETHER AS I RIDE BEHIND
NOT FAR .......BEAUTY IN THE AIR.

 

[Destee]

so nice BlakVerb
reading this peace
flying with friends
soaring
free
unshackled
blue skies
no worries

thank you for this



Destee